Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society

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Thoor Ballylee at Gort in County Galway renovated last year at a cost of €70,000

Funds to be used for WB Yeats’s old summer home at Thoor Ballylee in south Galway

The 15th-century Norman tower Thoor Ballylee was home to the poet and his family for 12 years. An auction is planned to raise funds to turn it into a cultural centre

A big donation this week means that Thoor Ballylee, the 16th-century tower house once owned by the poet, will reopen this summer, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth